Consoling ghosts [electronic resource] : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.

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Langford, Jean [author.]

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Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:

9781452939858
1452939853

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

362.17/50973 23

LOC classification:

HQ1073.5.U6 L36 2013

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Contents:

Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts.

Summary: "Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. Jean M. Langford invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death, conducting relationships with the dead and dying, and addressing the effects of violence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds"-- Publisher's Web site.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. Jean M. Langford invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death, conducting relationships with the dead and dying, and addressing the effects of violence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds"-- Publisher's Web site.

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